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Ensemble: New London Consort, Philipp Pickett dir.
Album: The Feast of Fools
Video: a selection of many images about donkeys from various manuscripts from XIIth to XVth cent.

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The feast of the fools, also called the feast of the ass, was destined to honor the donkey that carried Jesus during his entry into Jerusalem. In these holidays, celebrated after Christmas, the altar boys and priests reversed their roles while conducting the rites. The practice was particularly widespread in Notre Dame in Paris and in many European churches; in Italy similar cases are witnessed as in a famous missal of 1200 from the cathedral of Padua. The basic scheme of this particular event was always the same: during vespers, when the verse in which God overthrows the powerful from their thrones and raises the humble was read, a great din exploded from the choir, obviously prepared. The minor orders and the altar boys then chased the priests from their chairs and took their place, while a young cleric flanked the bishop during the rest of the rite assuming the role of pope of fools, bishop of fools or abbot of fools. At the end of the service he received the same honors as the real prelate, and his chaplain was to pronounce a blessing that comprehend: liver disease, a banquet of forgiveness, twenty banquets of toothache and two ringworms under the chin.Young people caught in bed on the day of the Innocents (December 28) received slaps on the back. In various cities the canons, clergymen and sometimes seculars were caught in their bed in the morning and, in a state of complete nakedness, led through the streets, into churches and onto the altar where they were mocked. Even the clergymen actively participated with jokes during the day of the Innocents walking naked through the city or exhibiting men, naked, in the theaters. Biblical scenes were represented in these periods of the year and with the passage of time these theatrical performances reached a point where some saints were even attributed a fixed characteristic; St. Peter was the most funny, St. Thomas was the incredulous and so on. The years passed and the holidays became more and more extreme and profane. Although their initial peaceful acceptance was testified by their inclusion in liturgical missals, in the following centuries these feasts and theatrical performances were limited and in 31 December 1519 the feast was gradually banned by the religious and civil authorities. From the ancient Roman saturnalia to the feasts of medieval fools and, if we consider that the first to use the term "carnival" was the jester Matazone da Caligano at the end of the 13th century, we could assume that reminiscences of these feasts are up to us. A need for madness, for evasion from the so-called normality, which by changing and adapting has managed to overcome Time and law.

I wish you happy listening!
Mirko Virginio Volpe
MUSICA MEDIEVALE

PS: This is another recording about this celebration:
It's my favourite, I uploaded it two years ago.

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First Vespers
1 Lux Hodie
2 Orientis Partibus Conductus Ad Tabulam
3 Veni Doctor Previe
4 Hec Est Clara Dies

Music From The Office
5 Festa Januaria
6 Verbum Patris Humanatur
7 Salvatoris Hodie Perotin

The Drinking Bout In The Cathedral Porch
8 Kalendas Ianuarius

Mass Of The Asses, Drunkards And Gamblers
9 Dies Festa Colitur
10 Kyrie Asini
11 Lux Optata Claruit
12 Gambler's Prayer/Malediction
13 Orientis Partibus Conductus Subdiaconi Ad Epistolam
14 Graduale Bachi
15 Sequentia: Vinum Bonum
16 Quantus Bachi
17 Hunc Diem/Ite Missa Est/Deo Gratias
18 Tityri Tu Patule

Music From The Office
19 Hac In Die Salutari
20 Procedenti Puero
21 Notem Fecit Dominus
22 Verbum Patris Hodie

Second Vespers - The Ceremony Of The Baculus
23 Deus In Adjutorium
24 Magnificat
25 Anni Novi Novitas
26 Baculi Sollempnia
27 Gregis Pastor Tityrus
28 Tityri Tu Patule Conductus Ad Poculum

The Banquet
29 Novus Annus Dies Magnus
30 Hac In Anni Janua

Processional
31 Verbum Caro
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Philip Pickett: symphony, recorder, shawm, dir.
Catherine Bott, Tessa Bonner, Catherine King, Julia Gooding, Olive Simpson, Jacqueline Barron, Ana Maria Rincon, Jenovera Williams: soprano
Kristine Szulik: alto
John Mark Ainsley: tenor
Michael George, Stephen Charlesworth, Robert Evans: baritone
Simon Grant: bass
Paula Chateauneuf: lute, gittern
Tom Finucane: gittern
Pavlo Beznosiuk, Mark Levy: gittern, fiddle
William Lyons: recorder, shawm
Paul Nieman: trumpet
David Roblou: organ
Stephen Henderson: bells, nakers, tabor
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